Dilibrate VIRUS Attack!

Atrocities · #1 March 26th, 2004, 01:51 AM

I received a virus in StarTrekMod email account addressed to me. The person who sent this used my name and attached a virus to the email. This means that I am being targetted and will more than likely have to ask CNC to shut down the email services for the AST site.

Quote:

Atrcities, here is game make of it as you can and let me know if I'm cause or not - thanks , ****

What have we come to. Why would any one want to send me a virus? Go figure.

Suicide Junkie · #2 March 26th, 2004, 02:17 AM

Are you sure its not just an address book spamming virus on someone else's machine?

Atrocities · #3 March 26th, 2004, 02:22 AM

SJ I am positive. Why would an address book for StarTrekMod use Atrocities and send me a virus attachment with the title Space Empires?

No this was a dilibrate assualt. If I had opened that file I would have been utterly screwed.

Combat Wombat · #4 March 26th, 2004, 02:28 AM

The worst part is, what have you done except bring us wonderful Star Trek mod goodness?

What virus was it out of curiosity?

President_Elect_Shang · #5 March 26th, 2004, 02:31 AM

Can you tell who it came from?

Atrocities · #6 March 26th, 2004, 02:45 AM

The virus was embedded in an HTML document that was titled Space Empires.html

The virus detection software deleted it and I did not click more info so I do not know what it was specifically. I honestly thought it was just another worm virus randomly emailed. When I saw that it was addressed specifically to me, with space empires file attachement I was shocked.

Yes I have the email and name of the person who alledgedly sent the email, but that could easily be some pretending to be that person so I chose to keep the name private.

I mean why send a virus using your own name? The guy is either a genius or incredibly short sided. So I figure the name an email address, although linked, may just be an attempt to hide the real senders identity.

Either way it is most distrubing.